Wretched Quotes
328 quotes by 257 authors
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
— Lucius Accius
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As…
— Teresa of Avila
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy,…
— Francis Bacon
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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
— Aeschylus
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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
— Anthony Burgess
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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet…
— William S. Burroughs
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Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to…
— Samuel Butler
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There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
— Andrew Carnegie
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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed,…
— Emma Lazarus
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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
— Juvenal
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O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because the woman whom Thou gavest…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the…
— George Eliot
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War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.
— Omar N. Bradley
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I've just discovered the secret of golf. You can't play a really hot game unless you're so miserable that you don't worry over your shots.…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.
— William Hazlitt
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
— Michel de Montaigne
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None of us needs instruction in how to recognize what your heart is saying. We do need guidance, however, on how to have the courage…
— Caroline Myss
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